Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-20
ALEADER SECURED.

General Campbell, the Champion OF
Division and Statehood.
Horseshoe Lake OAK. correspondence
Sioux City journal: The result of the
Huron convention is highly satisfactory
to the reading class of the citizens of
Jeraula county. and we are very much
surprised at the dissatisfaction expressed
by your Hyde county correspondent.
On all great questions, there must be q
leader. AS IT was necessary during the
late war to have q leading general at the
head OF our army. Gen. Grant was
by actual earned laureis placed in that
position and carried on the war to a
aucoassful termination. So in our move
for division and admission we must have
some man at the head competent to
cope with the opposition of an executive
and all his appo;ntee ,, together with a
genuine rebel congress who will do all
in their power to keep as from
gaining our independent !, and we must
have some one at the head to lead us on
to victory. Who have we that has given
so much time and talent without hope
of reward as hes Gen. Hugh }. Camp
bell? Who is there in oil Dakota that
all the rebel board, now controlling this
government, hate rs badly as they do
Hugh j. Campbell? Gen. Campbell is
our standard bearer. aud we hope that
at no distant day we may be able to ex-
press to him our satisfaction OF his great
efforts in our behalf.
1t our delegations to the Huron con-
vention were unsatisfactory to us, who
is to blame but ourselves. At our con-
ventlon there was but handful of voters
present, and while t he republicans n
this country cast more than three-fourths
of the vote, there was but one true and
tried republican on the delegation one
other who has trained for q year or TIVE
with that party and three dyed-in-the.
wool democrats. The political com.
plexion of our delegation was. doubtless
satisfactory to our people.
| The democrats claim to be in favor oil
division and statehood, and at least from
Jerauld they were we'll represented and
through them on this question Jerauld
was we'll represented. And now that
the convention has laid out our work
| work that must be accomplished in order
TO insure successful termination OF
this great problem prior to the vote OF
1888, We should all take our GOATS off
and go to work. Let us not hold back
in the breech1ng because we fear some
one will be more highly favored in the
future than we, bat let US 20 to work
and gain admission. Then we canssettle
the questions of Lesser Importance. Those
| people who are settled upon homeRteade
and preemptions in Dakota ought tc
see the nece ssity, as they certainly dc
of a change in the administration OF the
land department OF the government, and
| this we cannot hope for without o
change in the head Of the government
And it bshooves US to let tliding matters
rest ::s..a:i ne gain admission and be-
come part of the United States, wher
we can have chance to express oul
views in q shape that will tell. We in
Jerauld propose to follow our leader
Hugh j. Campbell, until such time as
majority of our people substitute some
one else, when they will find us in th,
front rank battling for our rights, and
We except to see our neighbor Hyde
standing by our side.